Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 14789, Thomas Gibbs, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Gibbs, Thomas Temperance
W 14789
CONTENTS

9,024 Massachusetts.
Thomas Gibbs, 4 of Sandwich, in the state of Massach ts - who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel H. Jackson, of the Massachusetts line, for the term of two years. War
Enscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts, at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 20. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24. of March 19, and sent to William Fessenden, Esq., Sandwich, Barnstable Co. Mass.
  Arrears to 4th of March, 1819. . .  83. 96.    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. Sept. 7  48. "    10 mo. \frac{11}{30} } 1819. }  $:131. 96.    4 \frac{4}{31} }     { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
papers copied in order to get land claim allowed, Nov. 20. 1833
Application sent to Abner Davis Esq. Barnstable Mass. Oct 12. 1820

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Massachusetts
Temperance Gibbs.
widow of Thomas Gibbs, Decd. who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 Mar: 18. and who died on the 8 May, 1822 - (of Barnstable) - in the State of Mass - who was a private - in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. - commanded by Col: H. Jackson in the Mass: _____ time for 2 years -
Enscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 - Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of May - 1839 and sent to J. Reed Barnstable, Mass:
Arrears to the 14th of Mar: 1839 $240.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept _____ 40 - $280.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by M t Herral - Clerk, Book A - Vol. 1 Page 90

Thomas Gibbs's Schedule of Property.
Q 24 24 char Cent Pct 7. 1820

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Barnstable, ss.
On this Ninth day of August 1820., before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record for the said county Thomas Gibbs aged sixty six years, resident in Sandwich in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. for the term of nine months — in the Massachusetts line, also in the then most seven months more than nine months, under Capt. Davis, Holbrook, Col. Hovey, Jackson, M'Gill
Line — 9024  2024 and that he has received a pension certificate dated March 24 1818 and numbered 10118 in pursuance of his original Declaration made 20th day of April 1818, and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
House none. Lands none, money none furniture none, nor any kind of property. My family consists of the following persons, my wife Temperance aged 54 years, my Daughter Abigail aged 26 years, my daughter Temperance aged eighteen years, my Daughter Betsey aged fourteen years. My wife weakly but my children healthy, myself weakly not been able to do but very little labour, for fifteen years last past.
Thomas Gibbs.
Sworn to, and declared, on the Ninth day of August 1820, before said Court .
Alma Davis, Clerk.
I, Alma Davis , clerk of Barnstable County . do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nothing — cents and — cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twelfth — day of August 1820.
Alma Davis, Clerk of the Court for the County of Barnstable.

3988 Application of Temperance Gibbs for pension
admitted On Rm $80
died 8 th May 1822 Preston list
T. Reed Barnstable Mass

State of Massachusetts } County of Barnstable } J.
On this thirteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of Probate of Wills &c. of the County of Barnstable Temperance Gibbs a resident of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable aged twenty two years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838. entitled "An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows." That she is the widow of Thomas Gibbs late of said Sandwich deceased, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, served three years and received an honorable discharge from the Army at West Point in the State of New York after the termination of the Revolutionary War, that he presumed said discharge until the passage of the Pension act of the 10th of March 1818. when the same was transmitted to the Pension Office at Washington and he received a Pension certificate and continued to receive a Pension until his death. She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Gibbs on the twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty four, that her husband, the said Thomas Gibbs, died on the eighth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty two. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated.
her Temperance Gibbs mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable ss. Court of Probate Sandwich November 13. 1838 Sworn to and subscribed by said Temperance Gibbs in open Court before me Nymphas Marston } Judge of said Court

Cambridge of Massachusetts Barnstable County ss -
I Timothy Reed Register of the Court of Probate in & for said County hereby certify that Hon. Nathaniel Marston is the judge of said Court and that the within signature purporting to have been made by him is his genuine signature
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 13 th Novr A.D. 1838 Timothy Reed Reg d Probate
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66 Extract of Record
Thomas Gibly Jr. and Temperance Gibly both of Sandwich entered to be published June twelfth seventeen hundred and eighty four"
I William J Freeman of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable and State of Massachusetts certify that the above is a true copy of the record of the town of Sandwich with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows, June 12 1704.
William J Freeman { Town Clerk I William J Freeman above named, depose and say that I hold the office of town clerk in the County, town and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named. As attested by me Sandwich Nov. 13 1838.
William J Freeman } Clerk of the town of Sandwich
I also certify that I have thoroughly searched the records of the town of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable and state of Massachusetts and cannot find any record of the marriage between Thomas Gibly Jr. and Temperance Gibly of Sandwich Sandwich Nov. 13 1838.
William J Freeman { Town Clerk Barnstable G. November 13 th 1838 Sworn to before me J. W. F. Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. County of Barnstable.
I Timothy Reed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, hereby certify that Seth F. Nye Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified and was so on the 13 th of November inst. and that I believe the within signature purporting to have been made by him to be his genuine signature.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 18 th of November A.D. 1838.
Timothy Reed Clerk.

•• We Joseph Fuller and Nathaniel Fuller both of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable State of Massachusetts do testify and say that on or about the twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty four we were present at the marriage of Thomas Gibby, Jr. and Temperance Gibby both of said Sandwich: We further testify and say that said Thomas Gibby is dead and the said Temperance Gibby has not been married since the death of her said husband and further say not. Sandwich August the fourteenth in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
Joseph Fuller
Nathaniel Fuller
State of Massachusetts
Barnstable ss. August 14 th 1838. Personally appeared the above named Joseph Fuller and Nathaniel Fuller and personally made oath to the truth of the above declaration by them subscribed before me
Wm. F. Nye Justice of the Peace.
State of Massachusetts
Barnstable ss. August 14 1838. I hereby certify that the above named Joseph Fuller and Nathaniel Fuller are persons of credibility
Wm. F. Nye Justice of the Peace.
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Barnstable, Sept. 1840
Barnstable
I Timothy Reed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Barnstable & Commonwealth aforesaid hereby certify that Seth Dyer Esquire is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly Com- missioned and qualified and was so on the fourteenth day of August instant and that I believe the within signatures purporting to have been made by him to be his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this fourteenth day of August A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty eight
Timothy Reed Clerk

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Barnstable
ss.
On this 20 th day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Thomas Gibbs of Sandwich , aged sixty two years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."

Barnstable J. S. February 28 th 1819.
I am satisfied that the within Applicant is in need of Assistance from his country for support.
And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Thomas Gibbs did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Thomas P Adams Ch. Jus.

Thomas Gibbs
Thomas Gibbs junior, Jackson's Wharf, "Berg", 1781 to 1783 20 th April 1818
after certificate of claim after circum- stances of the Alm.
M c Feperden Sandwich
Thos Gibbs

I Thomas Gibbs of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged sixty two years, a resident Citizen of the United States on oath set forth and declare that I enlisted in Sandwich and was mustered at Westpoint in the beginning of 1701 in the company commanded by Capt. Holbrook in Colonel Col. Holbrook H. Jackson's regiment of the Massachusetts line; that I continued in the service of the United States until the end of the war when I was discharged from service in the autumn or winter of 1783 near Peekskill in N. York; that I was in the  no battle of _____ and that I am in reduced circumstances and stand in need of the assistance of my country for a support. I have a written or printed discharge under the hand of Genl. Knox, which is now at Barnstable, and which I will procure and forward.
Thomas Gibbs
I Benjamin Atwood of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts and am now residing in the United States do agree & say that I knew Thomas Gibbs of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable & who is now a applicant for a pension from the United States I was a Soldier in the Continental Army that I saw the said Thomas Gibbs at Westpoint at here quartering; I have a perfect knowledge of his serving more than nine months in the Continental Service at one time further your applicant saith not.  Massachusetts Canada Atwood
Barnstable 31 March 1814 then personally appeared before the subscribers the above named _____ Benjamin Atwood and made oath to the truth of his deposition by him subscribed & that in my opinion he is a credible witness to the fact intended in this deposition.  Thomas Swift justice of the peace Barnstable.  Approved is the discharge of the applicant for nine months service dated 13 May 1780

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Frances Gibbs Widow of Thomas Gibbs Pri Rev War
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

Gibbs, Thomas Mass W14789

Thomas
This Certifieth that Thomas Gibbs private Soldier has Served nine months in the 15 th Massachusetts Reg t being the full term of his Inlistment, has conducted himself as a good and faithful Soldier, and is hereby discharged the Service
Given under my hands at Highlands this 13 th Day of May 1780
Silvanus Smith Capt. Com 15 th Mass t Reg t

Mr. Gibbs Discharge -
Gibbs, Thomas Mass W14789

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Thomas Gibbs Soldier in the fourth Massachusetts Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the Thirty first Day of December
1783
By the General's Command,
Knox M c Gow
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment.
Charles Seldon Adjutant

Barnstable Dec. 14 th
Sir
J. L. Edwards Esq. Com r of Pensions Washington
3988 Dec 19 M ch : 7 July 38. P. 65 D. 65

Barnstable. Mass. Dec 14. 1838
Sir I enclose the application of Temperance Gilder for a pension -
Please make return to me - Respectfully Friendly Yours
J. L. Edwards Esq } (Guard. of Pension)

I Josiah Jones of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable & Commonwealth of Massachusetts & an invalid pensioner of The United States, do affirm I say that I know know Thomas Gibbs of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable, & who is now an appli- cant for a pension from the U. States as or a soldier in the continental army, in Col. Jackson's Regiment  that I saw him at West point at Head Quarters & that I have a perfect knowledge of his service in the continental army upwards of two years at one time & in further your deponent saith not &c.
Josiah Jones
Massachusetts
Barnstable 4 March 5 1819
Then personally appeared before the subscribed the above named Josiah Jones & made oath to the truth of this deposition by him subscribed & that in my opinion he is an credible witness to the facts stated in this deposition

Wendell Davis
Jus Pacis & of the Crown for Barnstable County Massachussetts
I Abner Davis, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Barnstable, do certify, that Thomas Swift, who hath signed the foregoing deposition of Canada Asher, as a Justice of the Peace, and Wendell Davis, who hath signed the foregoing deposition of Josiah Jones, as Justice Peace & Quorum, are sworn Justices of the Peace for the County of Barnstable, and full faith and credit, are due to their official acts as such. And that the above are the signatures of said Thomas Swift and Wendell Davis.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of our Circuit Court of Common Pleas, of our said County, and subscribed my name at Barnstable the sixth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Abner Davis, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Barnstable.